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What email? 9/28/2007 10:51:19 AM
Ignore at Your Own Risk... We've all been guilty of it: seeing a person in the mall whom you know but don't really want to engage in a conversation with so you duck behind other shoppers. Or perhaps you feign lack of recognition when eye contact occurs if much time has elapsed since the last time you'd been in the other person's presence.
Or maybe it's just me and I'm addressing a group of one: myself. But at least I admit it. Honestly, though, I never quite feel good about doing it. Sometimes I rationalize that the other person wouldn't recongize me anyway; I mean, I don't really think I'm all that memorable. And maybe the other person isn't either, so to speak, but I still remember him, so why do I put myself in the "unremarkable" category? Perhaps it's to make myself feel better for having done the ignoring to begin with; I'm not sure.
So, assuming that I'm not in a group of one, and that at some time or another we've all been guilty this social faux pas, riddle me this, Batman:
Do you ignore emails from people you know? Pretend to never have received them? This I can honestly say I do not do. If someone took the time to send me something, I will always acknowledge it. But if you admit that you are an email ignorer, keep this in mind:
In today's day and age of online instant gratification, I suggest you don't (assuming, of course, that the sender is someone you know). Through magic "cookies" placed on our computers and email functionality that tells you who's received, opened and clicked through to various links, we can no longer hide behind other shoppers or feign lack of recognition. And if you choose to ignore, remember this: Every time the "sender" sees you, he or she may actually know more than you do. ;-)
